 The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water,...  King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts - Seite 3von William Shakespeare - 1808 - 78 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish - 2003 - 429 Seiten
...beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on... | |
 | William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner - 2003 - 460 Seiten
...beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — O'erpicturing... | |
 | Richmond Tyler Barbour - 2003 - 274 Seiten
...beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. (2.2.201-8) The speech is a set-piece of proto-orientalist vision: the splendid,... | |
 | Alan Sheridan - 2003 - 504 Seiten
.... . . For her own person, It beggar 'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'er-picturing that Venus where we see...dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-colour 'd fans . . . Not content with allowing Lyn Harding to evoke the scene, Tree could not resist the challenge... | |
 | Larry Sider, Jerry Sider, Diane Freeman - 2003 - 260 Seiten
...first meeting with Anthony in Shakespeare's play is perhaps the classic example: '... the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.' The words between 'stroke' and 'faster' require the speaker to push through the resistance of the line-break,... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 2003 - 378 Seiten
...description of Cleopatra, spoken by the gruff soldier Enobarbus, is similarly lacking in specificity: she did lie In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue...that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. (2.2.198-201) If Shakespeare's knowledge of ancient representations is unclear, we can nevertheless... | |
 | James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner - 2014 - 208 Seiten
...beaten gold; Purple the sales, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With... | |
 | Michele Marrapodi - 2004 - 292 Seiten
...recollected in the peculiar enchanted and erotic harmony of sea and oars in Shakespeare: 'the oars were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...beat to follow faster, / As amorous of their strokes' (2.2.204-7). The complete series of intermedi, in fact, anticipate and elaborate Shakespeare in celebrating... | |
 | Simon Williams - 2004 - 264 Seiten
...the queen. Shakespeare wrote she did lie In her pavilion, - cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'er picturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature;...Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 2005 - 298 Seiten
...beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...did lie In her pavilion — cloth of gold, of tissue — O'cr-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. (2.2.191-201) The words convey... | |
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